Jaguar XJ (X300/X308)

With Ford’s money behind it, Jaguar was going places during the early-1990s – and the X300 was a clear indication that Uncle Henry wanted the best for the Leaping Cat, sticking rigidly to marque values… perhaps too rigidly. It might have not looked like much of a leap over the XJ40 it replaced, but it was vastly better made, and more impressive to drive, and saw the company well into the 21st century. Today, it’s gaining recognition as a modern classic, and as such is still something of a bargain, if you can find one that’s been loved.

﻿Ian Nicholls, ﻿AROnline﻿’s resident historian takes time out from his studies of the BMC>MGR archive to tell us about his rather eclectic taste in cars – and his relationship with Browns Lane’s finest… […]

Ian Nicholls, AROnline’s historian, turns his attention to Jaguar – and looks at its fall and rise in the 1990s, an era when the German manufacturers were beginning to take over the world. Here, in Part Four, he recalls the introduction of the X300-generation XJ6, and how it previewed the next generation of saloons to emerge from the company. […]